The Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Cologne in Germany under the direction of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gereon Fink meets top university tasks in the patient care, teaching and academic science. With 100 beds in the specialized units, the Department provides the whole range of diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases.

The focuses of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Cologne cover the following services:

Neurological intensive care

Stroke with the specialized treatment in the specialized unit for stroke, neurological early rehabilitation of strokes and other cerebrovascular diseases

Treatment of movement disorders, especially, Parkinson’s disease by special techniques, for example, by means of deep brain stimulation or apomorphin

In addition to the outpatient department with the general neurological consultation and the 24-hour emergency service, there are specialized outpatient departments for the following areas:

Neurooncology (brain tumors)

Neuromuscular diseases

Botulinum toxin therapy

Multiple sclerosis

Rare neuroimmunological diseases

Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders

Deep Brain Stimulation

Dementia / memory impairment

Cerebrovascular disease / stroke

Epilepsy and narcolepsy

The diagnosis and treatment of all neurological diseases are carried out on the inpatient basis. Along with the common department, there is a private Neurological Department of Intensive Care and supra-regional certified Stroke Unit for providing the comprehensive medical care. Moreover, the Department of Neurology has a Department of Early Rehabilitation for the patients with neurological and neurosurgical diseases.

The range of the inpatient provided services of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Cologne under the direction of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gereon Fink covers both diagnosis and treatment of the following diseases:

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